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The contributors in Understanding Unemployment argue that unemployment is symptomatic of an inherently inefficient labor market founded on structured inequalities of locality, sex, race and age. They also offer new perspectives on unemployment and the nature of effective and active labor market policies. Also addressed are such critical issues as the nature of labor supply and demand, employer recruitment practices, the effect of unemployment on individuals and families, and the potential impact of European harmonization. ... Read more

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Exploring the relationship between employment change, society and economic restructuring, Making a Living in Europe shows how the culture of work has been transformed in the industrialized nations of the EU. ... Read more

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The New Politics of Unemployment is the first comparative study of the politics of policy innovation in the area of unemployment. It takes as its context the intractable mass unemployment in western Europe since the early 1980s, a situation which neither national governments nor the EU have successfully remedied. It looks at how the orthodox unemployment policies of contemporary governments have failed and what new policies might be introduced. A number of radical unemployment policies from Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Britain, Spain, Denmark, Norway, and the EU are outlined. These are investigated with the goal of identifying the conditions under which they might become standard components of the national and EU strategies to bring down unemployment. ... Read more

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This book presents a wide-ranging survey of the major issues concerning the recent growth of part-time employment in industrialized societies. It examines many of the debates, analysing different circumstances in countries ranging from the US, the UK, Japan and France. The book presents for the first time a systematically comparative analysis of the common and divergent patterns in the use of part-time work in Europe, America and the Pacific Rim. Part-time Prospects brings together sociologists and economists to provide an up-to-date summary of the major theoretical debates on the changing organization of work and time, tackling such areas as gender issues, ethnic questions and the differences between certain national economies. Is this kind of work becoming an increasingly normal part of most people's working lives, or does it remain a female ghetto of low pay, low pensions and low labor standards? ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Westchester County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on October 20, 2003. The length of the article is 606 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Should job seekers be less pessimistic?(Issues@Work)(mixed view on economy and employment)
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 20, 2003
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 42Issue: 42Page: 4(1)

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This book examines the role of international labor mobility in the presence of endogenously created unemployment and increasing returns to scale technology. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Geographical Analysis, published by Ohio State University Press on October 1, 2001. The length of the article is 9220 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Concentration Effects, Spatial Mismatch, or Neighborhood Selection? Exploring Labor Market and Neighborhood Variations in Male Unemployment Risk Using Census Microdata from Great Britain.(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Edward Fieldhouse
Publication: Geographical Analysis (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2001
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Volume: 33Issue: 4Page: 353

Article Type: Statistical Data Included

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The recent labour-market performance varies greatly between the United States and continental Europe on the one hand, and between the low- and high-skilled on the other. This book starts by presenting up-to-date empirical evidence on these stylised facts and on the importance of the intensity of product-market competition for the labour market. It then integrates models of union wage bargaining, efficiency wages and matching with modern analyses of imperfect competition on product markets. Subsequently, the analysis is extended to include the effects of exogenous and endogenous productivity growth as well as skill-based technological change. This makes it possible to not only explain the influence of product-market competition and growth on aggregate unemployment, but also how they affect the unemployment rates for the low- and high-skilled differently. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business, published by Stillman School of Business on September 22, 1989. The length of the article is 6480 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: On indexing unemployment.
Author: Bevars D. Mabry
Publication: Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1989
Publisher: Stillman School of Business
Volume: v26Issue: n1Page: p1(22)

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This digital document is an article from Alaska Business Monthly, published by Alaska Business Publishing Company, Inc. on November 1, 1990. The length of the article is 686 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: On the mend. (Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska) (Alaska Business Briefs)
Publication: Alaska Business Monthly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1990
Publisher: Alaska Business Publishing Company, Inc.
Volume: v6Issue: n11Page: p10(2)

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Papers in this volume assess the effectiveness of reemployment bonus incentives for impacting the costs and effectiveness of the unemployment insurance system. ... Read more